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“It’s kind of a lump of tissue. If you squint it might look somewhat like a baby. To be honest, this thing is more of a Rorschach test, really. Half the time I just make stuff up because who’s going to call me on it?

“I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans,” Massie said of the Republican voters who had delivered the Tea Party victories. “But after some soul-searching, I realized when they voted for Rand and Ron [Paul] and me in these primaries, they weren’t voting for libertarian ideas. They were voting for the craziest son of a bitch in the race. And Donald Trump won best in class.”

“It can be frustrating. I realize to see some of the folks are operating in broad daylight next to businesses. Our task force has taken a lead and since January,” Aronberg said. “We’ve made 21 arrests of individuals who have been engaged in this conduct.”

However, only half were charged with human trafficking.

“You have to catch them soliciting, and then it’s prostitution,” Aronberg said. “It is not necessarily force, fraud or coercion and to get that you need a victim to speak up, a cooperating victim, if you don’t have that you can charge them with other crimes but it won’t be human trafficking.”

Fuckin-A these people are stupid. Massage parlors have been operating out in the open in one form or another for like the past several thousand years. Maybe these genius reporters should do a study on why men like blowjobs.

After insisting for some time that she printed out the report and kept it on her desk for a few days before disposing of it in a burn bag, Winner caved and acknowledged she hid the document before sending it off to a news outlet, now known to be The Intercept.

“So how did you get it out of the office?” FBI agent Justin Garrick asked.

“Folded it in half in my pantyhose,” Winner replied.

Ban pantyhose-wearing, Crossfit vegans from not only our intelligence services, but from our world.

Trump should have stood his ground instead of letting the LIBERAL MEDIA tell him what to do just because there’s some silly “humanitarian crisis” (assuming this whole hurricane thing isn’t another media hoax like global warming or the Grammy Awards). Sad!

Media tries to make Trump look bad and unsympathetic to Rican’s plight. Trump calls bluff and waives entire Nanny-State law that media was bitching about. Media pauses because they helped Trump dismantle government a bit and didn’t really want that. Trump gets elected (again) because of media’s foolish attempts to control Trump.

former WWE tag team and intercontinental champion Marty Jannetty allegedly posted on Facebook that he and his daughter Bianca have held off having sex but that they no longer will as a DNA test revealed she is, in fact, not his biological child.

The post, which no longer appears on Jannetty’s timeline, stated: “Just did a DNA [test], she’s NOT my daughter. We both held out of sex because you don’t do that, but now we ain’t.”

Jannety, known for his excessive partying away from wrestling and his finishing move the “Showstopper”, went on to describe Bianca as “F***IN HOTT” before asking wrestling fans for their advice, IB Times reported.

In the wake of the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yul?n Cruz — along with other US politicians, including McCain and Marco Rubio, R-Florida — had urged the suspension of the Jones Act in order to speed up supply deliveries.

So the Jones Act is an executive order that Congress has no authority to suspend but has to ask the President to waive? I guess as long as it’s Good Things? the President’s doing, nobody’s going to be so churlish as to ask whether or not he has the Constitutional authority to waive the law. Picking and choosing what laws and what parts of laws you’re going to enforce, making up the law as you go along, seemed to work fine for Obama so I can’t imagine why it wouldn’t work fine for every other President going forward.

Technically Congress made the law and the president should enforce it. An Executive branch check to Legislative power is to selectively enforce laws because who will do it, Congress?

The main thing is that these crappy laws are getting attention by the public and as with Trump free publicity during the election, I don’t think the media means to expose all these government excesses, so Congress can repeal them.

its almost as if the lefty media is trying to make Trump look bad by talking about how the Jones Act hurts Puerto Ricans and Trump is not doing anything and then Trump does something. The media is just not used to presidents rolling back government this fast.

Yeah, ideally congress would pass a law specifically granting Puerto Rico a temporary waiver for a specified period of time for the president to pass, but I guess that would take too long for them. They’re far too busy not doing other things in order for them to do this.

It does set a bad precedent for assholes like Obama to try to get away with saying “I’m ‘waiving’ all our immigration laws’ and that sort of bullshit.

Dude, it isn’t some great act of courage. It was utterly routine and done without a second thought by past presidents. He doesn’t get credit for initially being willing to let people needlessly suffer with the explicit excuse that it appeases business interests in the shipping industry, then belatedly changing his mind after a backlash. I mean, maybe if it causes someone to take a look at this thing and push for full out repeal of the law but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards yet.

Basically, when you shit the bed, you don’t get “credit” for attempting to wipe a little bit of it up afterward.

I don’t think courage is a basis for determining political “credit”. Politicians tend to be uncourageous shitheels but they still get credit for giving people ObamaCare, etc.

Trump probably didn’t even know about the Jones Act because its one of many inane laws on the books. I had forgotten about it since I lived in Puerto Rico years ago. The media brought it up or his cabinet brought it up first when the hurricanes hit P.R. Trump waived the requirements and its up to Congress to repeal the law.

An infamous “anti-fascist” teacher was arrested again Tuesday in Berkeley after an Antifa “Victory March.” Police in riot gear arrested Yvonne Felarca, a Berkeley middle school teacher and Antifa activist, for resisting arrest and battery, according to Campus Reform. Felarca spearheads the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (BAMN)…Felarca was previously arrested in July for inciting a 2016 riot, participating in the riot, and assault by means of force likely to inflict great bodily injury, reported CBS Sacramento. The teacher appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” defending her successful endeavor to shut down conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ February Berkeley speech.

The grocery store applied for a liquor license earlier this year, but residents argued it would bring competition to locally owned businesses. They also opposed alcohol taking coveted shelf space that could be used for food at a cramped store.

Receiving a liquor license is a multistep, bureaucratic process.

First, a company must apply with the city’s Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration. The administration determines whether the establishment meets qualifications and publicly posts the application, giving a deadline for the community to protest the application.

If the local ANC or neighborhood association decides to protest ? and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board determines that the protest has standing ? the parties enter into a mediation phase. If they can’t reach a settlement, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hears arguments and decides whether to issue the license.

Henry, the curmudgeonly train, is afraid to come out of his tunnel, because “the rain will ruin my lovely green paint and red stripes.”

Realizing that the day’s workflow is irrevocably disrupted, Fat Controller decides that Henry must be punished?for life. “We shall take away your rails, and leave you here for always and always,”

Sounds fine to me.

In the U.S. version, this voice-over is tweaked so that Henry’s fate seems temporary. But the original version is still on YouTube, and it’s comically bleak. As one commenter writes, “What moral lesson are kids supposed to learn from this? Do as you’re told or you will be entombed forever in the darkness to die?”

So Henry should only have to work when it’s nice out and otherwise come and go as he pleases. One problem… he’s a goddamn train, not a postal worker.

Speaking in Boston on Wednesday at a marketing conference called Inbound, former First Lady Michelle Obama had some choice words for women who voted for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton in 2016. During the Q & A, Obama was speaking of how she stayed true to her “authentic self,” adding, “Quite frankly, we saw this in this election. As far as I’m concerned, any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice.”

She continued, “What does it mean for us, as women, that we look at those two candidates? and many of us said, ‘That guy? He’s better for me. His voice is more true to me.’ Well, to me, that just says you don’t like your voice. You like the thing you’re told to like.”

I, for one, welcome the wookie to torpedo any chance she may have at public office.

Nothing about what she said pertains to “rednecks”. It is about her treating women as if they don’t have agency and legit reasons for voting the way they chose. She is also treating women as a collective monolith whose votes were owed to Hilldawg. I wouldn’t have to explain this to you if you were not such a disingenuous hack.

Except Hilary ran largely on being a woman. Women who voted for Trump rejected whi they were told to like. Michelle Obama’s reasoning here is dependent on some creepy group identity assumptions that women must have tbe same interests and therefore the same politics.

A Florida mom is speaking out against the elementary school her 6-year-old son attends after he kneeled during the Pledge of Allegiance on Monday.

Eugenia McDowell told ABC News that she had no idea that her son was going to kneel, something likely inspired from the ongoing protests at NFL games during the national anthem. Also on Mediaite Chris Cuomo: Trump Sounds Like He’s Telling NFL Owners ‘Control Your Dog’

According to McDowell, her son was ” publicly admonished” by his teacher.

In a text informing the mother, the teacher said “I knew where he had seen it, but I did tell him that in the classroom, we are learning what it means to be a good citizen, we’re learning about respecting the United States of America and our country symbols and showing loyalty and patriotism and that we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”

“What that said to me was that him taking a knee was the exact opposite- he was disrespectful of the country. He was being disrespectful of the flag,” McDowell said.

Her son alleges that the teacher told him to “stand up” and to “stop it.”

No one even knows what they are kneeling about anymore. Originally, Kapernick was protesting police brutality. Okay, but now it seems to be about “inequality” whatever that is. I bet you a hundred dollars that if the media had asked the various NFL players that kneeled last weekend what exactly they were protesting, none of them could have given a coherent answer. It is amazing how fast this whole thing slipped into comedy.

I have this weird idea that political protests should be about something and the people doing the protesting should understand what that is. Generally, I have found that to be the case. Just because people sometimes do irrational things or get involved in movements for reasons they cannot explain, doesn’t mean they always do that or that a protest movement that seems to have no articulable end or purpose any less remarkable.

That’s fine. I know that there are many political protests that people participate in that have no clue on what’s happening.

Occupy Wall Street March for Science Woman’s Equality Day People’s Climate March

Those are just the few recent ones. I remember interviews with people at OWS who had no idea what the movement was actually about. Also, the movements themselves are pretty difficult to define in any “coherent” way.

You’re right that it started off as a protest against police brutality (which while awful has substantially declined over the last 30-40 years, but that’s for another day), but last weekend it seemed to morph into a protest against Trump, which was inevitable once he opened his big mouth and got involved.

Unfortunately for the NFL, most of America is quite able to distinguish between Trump or a rogue cop and the country. Their form of protest isn’t just a middle finger to the cops or to Trump, it’s a middle finger to all of mainstream America, and the overwhelming majority of the country gets the message loud and clear.

Google Malcom Jenkins interview with Anderson Cooper. Here’s an Eagles player that seems to have a more articulate view on why he is protesting on Sundays. What’s missing, perhaps, is an acknowledgement that some cops are assholes to white people, too, and the justice system needs plenty of reforming (e.g. men of all colors getting screwed in divorce, nonsense sex registries, etc.)

I did tell him that in the classroom, we are learning what it means to be a good citizen, we’re learning about respecting the United States of America and our country symbols and showing loyalty and patriotism and that we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

Dammit, if we have to do public schools, can we at least let them go remotely? I know it would be a difficult transition with fewer things to get outraged about but we’d all be better off in the long run

In the wake of the largely media-driven “white supremacy” hysteria, Bray has become somewhat of a media personality, with dozens of national news outlets turning to him for information about antifa. According to the Washington Post, all of the media attention is making administration officials at Dartmouth a bit nervous. “Dartmouth officials are unsettled,” according to the report. “Bray has made no secret about his belief that violence is, in some circumstances, justified. In turn, the university has sought to distance itself from him.”

In a recent appearance on CSPAN, Bray defended antifa’s violence against fellow Americans by calling it “preemptive self-defense.”

Otherwise known as “assault and battery”. This term could have been coined by ‘The Onion’…

I am re-reading the book The Making of the Atomic Bomb right now. It is one of those books that is so good and so dense, you can read again every few years and still enjoy it. The first quarter of the book is a history of nuclear physics from about the turn of the century. The part I was reading last night talked about the rise of anti-Semitism and fascism in Germany during the 1920s and 1930s and its effect on Einstein in particular. Begining in the early 20s student groups accused Einstein of practicing “Jewish Science” that degenerated the German race. They started showing up and disrupting his lectures. It became nearly impossible for him to give a public lecture.

If you replaced “Jewish Science” with “Western Culture” and talked about how Einstein’s work was sexist and racist rather than harmful to the German race, there would be no difference between what happened to Einstein and what is happening to speakers and academics today. Not only was the language and insane logic the same, the tactics are exactly the same.

How NOT to get your message across: I’m convinced there is some real concern regarding over-use of antibiotics in farm animals, and therefore see non-coercive methods of reducing it as a good idea. But if you are going to do so, you’d better make sure your message isn’t muddied:

“Chipotle, Panera get A’s as report grades fast food chains on antibiotics use” […] “Chipotle and Panera Bread are the only chains out of 25 that received A’s for their policies on chicken, pork and beef.”http://www.sfchronicle.com/foo…..230720.php

Picking a restaurant chain most famous for poisoning its patrons says there’s something wrong with your selection method. Back to the PR folks for a re-think, here.